Trump posts racist clip of Obamas

MONKEY VIDEO DELETED AFTER OUTRAGE

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BETTER DAYS: Then-president-elect Donald Trump speaks with Barack Obama at the funeral for Jimmy Carter in Washington, DC on September 9, 2005.

President Donald Trump shared a post with a racist video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys, sparking outrage across the US political spectrum Friday, before deleting it in a rare backtrack and denying he had seen the relevant clip.

The White House initially rejected “fake outrage” over the video shared on Mr Trump's Truth Social account late Thursday night, only to then blame the post on an error by a staff member.

Democrats slammed Mr Trump as “vile” over the post about the Obamas —the first black president and first lady in US history — while a senior Republican senator said the video was blatantly racist.

Near the end of the one-minute-long video promoting conspiracies about Republican Mr Trump's 2020 election loss to Joe Biden, the Obamas were shown with their faces on the bodies of monkeys for about one second.